I think you and Jadae gave good descriptions of the Flower Carpet Series - although they are better than said at least here for the middle Europe climates.
And then - there are roses like “Inspiration” from Noack.
Thats a first outlook what will follow by them, I think. …
What I’ve heared they are working towards combining odour and health, too, over the next years.
Anyway, for my crossings this year I have used also Venice and Westzeit - as they are good roses in our climate.
Your seedling is a very nice example on how charismatic single flowers can be. As i can see you also use perlite grains as a soil (me too for some crossings, since about 2 years, i think I’ve seen it on Jim Sprouls fotos the first time … its a good solution to keep out funghi and nemathodes out).
These roses are more than 15-25 years old! Only Scarlet, Amber and Pink Supreme FC are relatively new. Like Arno said, Noack has bred much more beautiful varieties than the original flower carpets. Unfortunately, only the flower carpets were marketed heavily and spread across the world (without being tested properly, so it is said). Other Noack hybrids are only easily available in Germany. Even in the Netherlands, next to Germany, they are not very well known.
Wow, it would be great if Tesslaar would market more of the Noack roses even if they start a new parallel series to Flower Carpet. Tesslaar had the Dream roses that ended due to what seemed to be race specific black spot resistance the fell apart. They looked good where Twomey bred them. Do these newer Noack roses have larger flowers? How do they compare for health to Flower Carpet Pink?
Yes, it would be nice if more modern Noack roses would find their way to other countries! Just like the Kordes roses who are now available in Canada and the US.
I only have just one non-FC Noack rose. It is Ambiente, a low growing, healthy white/cream hybrid tea. Like I wrote before, it is not as easy to order Noack roses online and have them shipped to the Netherlands. So I end up ordering Kordes roses every time I order in Germany.
Anyway, you can find more information about newer Noack roses on their website. You have to choose the German version. The English version shows only flower carpet roses. The URL below shows Noack ADR roses per series or category (strauchrosen=shrub roses, beet roses = floribunda, edelrosen = hybrid tea, kletterrosen=climbing roses) There are more Noack roses, but the ADR ones are more likely to be strong and healthy.
Westzeit, Flashlight and Gateway are some Noack roses I would like to obtain in the future.
One of Noack best that used to be widely available is Lady Elsie May. I’ve seen it grown under some of the worst (shaded, crowded, to much humidity) conditions and have never seen disease on it. It is an offspring of Repandia, and I wish Noack’s larger shrub roses would get the same marketing as the Flower Carpet series, as some of them are much tougher here in the Southwest.
I know this is going against the grain, but in my little corner of the world where I grow about 500 roses (no HTs), I have found the claims about disease resistance not to hold true. Lady Elsie May completely lost all foliage by early August in the two years I had it and ended up shovel pruning it. Bonica and some of the other Meidiland shrubs do a little better but will get a good case of BS and eventually drop much of their foliage. I had five Belinda’s Dream (Earth-Kind) planted in different flower beds and they were not much better. None of my two dozen various David A’s have any real resistance to BS. David A makes the claim that The Mayflower is totally resistant to blackspot but each year it gives up and is overtaken by blackspot.
Carefree Beauty and Frontenac hold up reasonably well. About the only roses that have shown any real consistency in their resistance to blackspot are Knock Out and Viking Queen. To bad KO doesn’t have a more appealing flower.
So I reluctantly spray a fungicide in some of the rose beds in an attempt to keep little sense of appearance in the the garden.